בַּת bat
Hebrew word for “bath” · Strong’s H1324 · used 13 times in 8 verses
Meaning
bath, a unit of liquid measure, equal to dry measure ephah (about 9 imperial gallons or 40 litres, rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount);
How it is translated
Glosses given for bat in context, with how often each is used:
- baths 7
- bath 6
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel | 7 | 0.4 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Kings | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 45 (3), 1 Kings 7 (2), 2 Chronicles 2 (1), 2 Chronicles 4 (1), Isaiah 5 (1)
Forms
- בת 3
- בתים 3
- הבת 3
- הבתים 2
- ובת 1
- והבת 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with bat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חֹמֶר chomer “clay” 3
- אֵיפָה ephah “ephah” 3
- כּוּל kul “to sustain” 3
- טֶפַח tephach “handbreadth” 2
- עֲבִי avi “thickness” 2
- כֹּר kor “kor” 2
- עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 3
- פֶּרַח perach “flower” 2
- שׁוּשַׁן shushan “lily” 2
- מַעֲשֵׂר maaser “tithe” 2
- כּוֹס kos “cup” 2
- אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 3
Key verses
The verses using bat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 1 Kings 7:26 — And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
- 1 Kings 7:38 — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and…
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 — And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three…
- Isaiah 5:10 — Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
- Ezekiel 45:10 — Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Ezekiel 45:11 — The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure…
- Ezekiel 45:14 — Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an…
See all 8 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.